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Tales of Wonder!

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Book Description

This attempt to describe the effects of the Sublime & Wonderful is dedicated to M G Lewis Esqr MP. An attractive fresh bright example with contemporary hand colour - This print satirises the fashion for lurid Gothic novels in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A woman reads aloud from Matthew Lewis' 'The Monk', a scandalous horror novel published in 1796, provoking fascination and fear in her well-dressed companions.
Author James Gillray [Artist]
Date 1802
Publisher [Publish'd Feb.y 1.st 1802 by H. Humphrey 27 st James's Street London]
Condition closely cropped removing the Artists name and printers imprint & date - sometime laid down onto card [now slightly bowed]

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